[isalist] Re: my experience with surf control 5.5
- From: "Ara Avvali" <Ara.Avvali@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:57:03 -0800
Yes I imaged the server and restored in on a total different hardware
with acronis universal restore and it worked fine. I am sure you know
re-imaging a windows machine to dissimilar hardware is very hard due to
device drivers. But this tool does the magic. I changed from a dell
power edge 2850 with xeon processor and scsi drive to a Pentium 4 and
IDE drive and it booted fine and no blue screen. It took a while to come
up for the first time and hard drive was spinning constantly (hardware
detection) but it was normal on second time. It was an OEM Windows and
it was dell to dell so probably under other scenarios activation might
be necessary. And I don't care if PSS is laughing or not because I am
not going to call them for help on this special issue and I am pretty
sure they haven't done this before. :-)
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From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 6:10 AM
To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isalist] Re: my experience with surf control 5.5
"I did re-image the server on another machine" - not supported for ISA.
You might be successful; you might not.
Either way, any problems you encounter will be laughed away by PSS.
Jim
From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ara Avvali
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:10 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: [isalist] my experience with surf control 5.5
Ok
So I just want to share the story. I did re-image the server on another
machine and logged in to it. Then I did an in-place upgrade from 5.1 to
5.5. It went smoothly telling me that it is going to upgrade rules and
settings. Rebooted the server and registered filter for ISA was upgraded
to 5.5. So I let it run for couple hours and checked on event logs and
service status and everything was cool.
Then I went ahead and did it on live server. This time damn thing gave
me the error which is attached during installation. Then it was
installed and rebooted. Upon reboot web filter service did not start
automatically and I had to it manually but everything seems to be
working fine and no nasty event so far. If I remember it correctly this
error is related to the fact that SF can not stop the firewall service
on its own so you should stop it manually before attempting the upgrade.
I will post again for those who are interested. Just have to figure it
out why the web filter service does not start automatically :-(
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